I'm down today, and it's all Gentoo's fault.

Last night, I was working on my Django and foolishly told my system, "sure, go ahead and upgrade Python."  Big mistake.  Everything in Gentoo is python-dependent.  I'm now suffering through a long rebuild of the whole damn OS.   Everything broke: interprocess communication, bittorrent, my RSS reader, my IM system. 

Sigh.  I really ought to know better by now.

Even in the 'burbs, the walls have ears if you're loud enough

Okay, so the current couple renting the house next door aren't quite the ferals (for one thing they don't have kids), but Horus and Osiris when the husband (boyfriend?) gets mad he gets loud. He was screaming all his partner all day long. I almost never heard her voice, but all day I heard him shouting at her to "leave me the fuck alone," over and over, with intermittent slamming of doors (or stuff being thrown). It was unpleasant.

Why couldn't have been more like this couple. At least that would have been more entertaining.